Your card of yesterday reached me today, but too late to attend your service at the Home, which I would have been pleased to do. Accompanied by our daughter we went to Kansas City, Mo., Monday evening for a short visit and returned home yesterday noon. I examined eight new prisoners just before starting and upon my return found sixteen more. Then two more today. Twenty-six in all this week! So I have been very busy. Your handkerchief was found in Chapel and my sexton and night watch want you to know that you have found "two honest boys in the pen." I send it enclosed. Are you going to remain here over another Sunday, and if so, will you be out again or do you go to the Military Prison? The little book to Baby Esther, the poem and a tract, came this evening, for which please accept grateful thanks. May the blessed Lord greatly bless you in your noble work. May He comfort, strengthen and keep you. Sincerely yours in Jesus, R. A. HOFFMAN, Chaplain. * * * * * Iowa Soldiers' Home. Marshalltown, Iowa, July 18, 1901. Mrs. Elizabeth R. Wheaton. Dear Sister. Your card came, after a little delay, duly to hand. We regret very much your being sick and especially with that dreaded disease, the smallpox. There has not been a case of it at the Home and not any in town that I know of. Our family is well. Matters at the Home in usual shape. Thirty-four of the boys have died since January 1, and so we are being mustered out, because of service no longer needed. It will be a wonderful relief to us all to be invited to that "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Your visit here was well received, much enjoyed and very profitable. Your coming again will be hailed with delight. Very truly, your brother, JESSE COLE, Chaplain. * * * * * Michigan State Prison. Jackson, Mich., Sept. 9, 1903. Dear Mother Wheaton: The work still progresses nicely. Many of the men speak in the highest terms of the services you held here and wish to hear you again and those who pray often remember you in their prayers. We are very thankful to you for your interest in the inmates of Jackson Prison. God bless you in your mission of love. We send the sincere wish and offer the earnest prayer that God may make your book a strong influence in the upbuilding of Christian life and character. Sincerely, FRANK MCALPINE, Chaplain. * * * * *